re: Anyone ever burst out laughing at a funeral?

At my grandpas funeral they had hired a Baptist preacher to do the service because he used to be Baptist. This ancient man didn’t know my grandpa at all and was going on and on about how he’d want his loved ones to be saved (he was more atheist than anything) and he just plain started making up stories about him. My brother and I were both giggling.

At grandma on my mom’s side’s service my parents and my family of four were all sitting in the front row of the tiny funeral home in rural Alabama. Right before everything kicks off my dad starts fumbling around trying to reach in his suit pocket, as my mom shoots him dirty looks.

Next thing we know, he’s practically yelling as the first song begins. At first, I didn’t know if my dad was stroking out or what. It started to make more sense when we realized that he accidentally answered a call instead of silencing it. He started yelling “Mark, I gotta call you back.” at about 3x normal volume since the sound was being pumped directly into his hearing aids.

Now my mom starts clawing at his suit jacket pocket too trying to hang it up as me, my wife and our kids lose the battle to keep our composure. It got worse as he just kept trying to nicely get off the phone - at 120 decibels - while my mom got more and more frantic to grab the phone and cut off the call.

My dad eventually managed to retrieve the phone and proceeded to play keep away from my mom. He eventually disconnected and sat there like he took phone calls at every funeral.

I was pretty in the moment so I didn’t get to check out everyone else’s reaction. I imagine it was even more entertaining for everyone who was sitting behind us and had even less motivation to keep it together.

I took my grandmother to a funeral for one of her friends.....or at least thought it was, well, apparently not the wife. Apparently a lot of people had issues with the wife who was deceased. Brought her by the casket and she says , enjoy hell, bitch! Then another old lady right after her stands by by the casket and says....I fuqqed your husband for years.

I about lost it when she says that as did a few others. 80+ year old Sicilian women really hold grudges.

I've been to a couple where the speaker described some humorous events in the deceased life - good natured laughter was welcome but was fitting for the persons' deaths being memorialized.

I'd like to think some of my more humorous events might be recalled during my last rites.

Would have to be synchronous with the nature of the deceased tho.

Worst funeral speech I ever heard was at one of my aunt's funeral. The main speaker did nothing but recite all the abuses she had suffered from her first husband - who had died decades earlier.

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Brother heard Superbad was a good movie so turned it on.

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That's so crazy... Your crazy man.

Almost, a couple of months ago. Was at a funeral for a retired Lt. Colonel. They had some young guys in uniform standing at attention during the whole thing. One of the young men, who happened to be directly in front of me, didn't get the memo about locking his knees. To his credit, he felt he was about to go down, so he moved to the door behind him. Unfortunately he overshot the distance to the door, and when he opened the door, it hit him right in the forehead and he slowly slunk to the ground. I just put my head down and grit my teeth. One of the funniest things I've seen in person.